…and the house he shares with his people.

Kitchen cabinets II: Paint color

The first coat of paint is dry on the kitchen cabinets, and it’s looking like it needs some revision.

The current color is Sherwin Williams Techno Gray (SW6170). In some lights it looks gray…

but in others, it looks green:

and in still others, it looks oddly pastel and minty:

Yikes! The chip looked so grayish tan!

I don’t so much mind the green in it; it looks deliberately different from the grout and the accent tile, rather than looking like we swung and missed at matching either one. It’s way too light, though. It was the lighter of the two I ultimately narrowed it down to, which I chose because it’s easier for SW to re-tint darker than lighter. Looks like I should’ve gone with my gut. Now, though, the question is…

If these are techno gray (at left) and the two next shades on the same chip (middle = Chatroom; right = Hardware), I’m not sure if one further step darker will be dark enough!

The gallon will wind up being a custom color anyway, because I used part of it on this coat, so whatever tint they add won’t add up to a pre-set formulation. Maybe if they add what it would take to get to the middle shade if the gallon were full, it will end up being just darker, but not quite to the right-most shade.

Like the bathroom project, although the color isn’t exactly right on shot #1, I do think I like the overall effect on the room. It feels brighter and cleaner than the old honey oak, and I like that.